Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1887-07-12
WOMEN AS INVENTORS.

Nineteen Hundred Entries to Thor Credit
Found In the Pension Onioe.
The world has not given woman due
credit for hor inventive faculties.
Few persons realize what an impor-
tant role she is playing in the design
ing of numerous articles, useful as well
as ornamental. The records of the
Patent Office show that fully nineteen
hundred patents are claimed by
women. Moreover, not small num-
Der of the patents granted to men are
really for ingenious devices and IDEAS
that have originated in feminine
brain. The women of New York have
been granted more patents than their
sisters in any other State. The women
of Massachusetts,, Ohio. Indiana and
Wisconsin rank next in order In
machinery women have done much.
Almost daily improvements in sewing
machines come from her brains. In
the model-room of tho Patent Office.
nearly side by side with Elias Howe's
machine, is one made bya Miss RoSen-
thai.
The first marine telescope was the
production of Mrs. Sarah b. Mather.
of New York. Mrs. Montgomery shows
a section of war vessel provided with
series of iron plates so constructed
as to resist shot and shell. There is
also in the model-room an engine OF
oifense as well as defense in the shape
of breech-loading gun credited to
Miss Ruth Goshan. Among the more
peaceful inventions by women are a
car-coupling pin and an improved rail-
way for street cars. A life-raft is a
contrivance of Mrs. Beaseley. An
appliance for raising sunken vessels
has been patented by Mrs. Emily |
fancy, of Pennsylvania She has also
contrived syphon propeller pump.
Mrs. Frackelton, Of Milwaukee, claims
to have made two hundred women self
supporting by means of little portable |
kiln for firing decorated china Miss
Mary Broughton, of New York, discov-
cred new mode of forming air cham
bers in dental plates for artificial teeth.
Miss Amelia Bird desired to make
noise in the world. and her genius
scared to steam whistles Mrs Caro-
line Brooks, of Arkansas. has patented
some lubricating molds in plaster.
Mrs. Brooks will be remembered as
the butter artist at the Centennial, her
lovely creation of Iolanthe attracting
much attention. She now has studio
in New York.
Mrs. Sarah Ames. of Massachusetts.
patented the bust of Abraham Lincoln.
OF what the patent-right consists does
not clearly appear, as artists generally |
consider such things creations rather
than inventions. Mrs. Cornelia Beau
mont, of Ohio. has patent life boat to
her credit. Mrs. Martha j. Coston
has been very successful with her pyro-
technic night signals. She is an exam
pie of what pluck and perseverance can
do. At the death of her husband his
papers were in q chaotic condition and |
his designs not fully perfected. I'M
aided. she brought them to a point
where they were practically valuable
and she remained almost ten years in |
Producing them in the various foreign |
ports. She has been rewarded for her
perseverance, by fortune. Among the |
queer inventions is an instrument for
restoring facial symmetry, by Miss Fam
ny Batchelder, of Massachusetts. The
numerous patents granted to women
include free icapes, dust-brushes, baby
tenders. devices for killing mosquitoes
and other insects. window-wash5rs,
glove-fasteners, food-preservers, cow
mixers, dish-washers, washing-ma-
chimes, cooking-stovcs. corpse preserv-
ers. bustles, face lotions and all kinds |
of garments. "A. D. Montaign. in NJ
y World